A Uniquely PDX
STORYTELLING EXPERIENCE
For the past seven years, photographer Jason Langer has documented Portland's unique EXOTIC DANCE, BURLESQUE, CIRCUS AND DRAG culture through portraiture and oral history, creating an intimate record of the performers whose lives and stories have helped shape the city's identity. Subrosa & the Cult of Aphrodite is both an art book and a cultural document, exploring themes of performance, labor, sexual identity, agency, and community. This event raises support for the publication and distribution of the book, helping preserve an important chapter of Oregon's cultural history and bring these stories to a wider audience.
*This event may be attended by those aged 21 and over.
Subrosa PDX Event: 10.09.2026
Rae Loft - Portland, OR
Join us Friday, October 09, 2026 from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm.
TICKETS & EVENT SPONSORSHIP ARE AVAILABLE NOW.
“Subrosa is a portrait of the vibrant, diverse, rebellious, and bawdy underground of pre-pandemic Portland, before many of these clubs and venues shuttered. Most importantly, it is a meditation on survival and balance: between creative impulse and domestic stability, and between vulnerability and sheer tenacity."
“EVERY STORY HERE IS ABOUT TRANSFORMATION; ABOUT PEOPLE BECOMING THEIR TRUE SELVES; AND IN TURN ENCOURAGING US TO FIND OUR OWN.”
Jason Langer